A Memoir of a ChildhoodFrank McCourt returned to America when he was nineteen. For many years, he was an English teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. The sequel to "Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, "...9999903169383McCourt, Frank
HARPERCOLLINS UK
miércoles, 31 de julio de 2024
Dickie Mountbatten: The figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in them taking the Mountbatten name, he was a Supreme Allied Commander dur...9999903168041Andrew Lownie
Editors Varis
martes, 30 de julio de 2024
Princess, Suffragette, RevolutionaryIn 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs--a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to ...9999903166818Anita Anand
Bloomsbury
viernes, 26 de julio de 2024
Charli Howard had always wanted to be normal but for some reason, she couldn't quite find out how to do it. As a teenager, she felt like the only one who struggled with anxiety and...9999903165101Charli Howard
Penguin
jueves, 25 de julio de 2024
A Journey Through MemoryA love story and a detective story, a study of history and of memory, this spellbinding new work explores a son's confrontation with the terror of his parents' childhood. Moving f...9999903164784Mark Raphael Baker
HarperCollins Publishers
miércoles, 24 de julio de 2024
A Life of Apsley Cherry-GarrardThe first authorized biography of the antarctic explorer who gave us the greatest classic of polar literature. In February 1912, Apsley Cherry-Garrard drove a team of dogs 150 mile...9999903162995Sara Wheeler
Vintage
sábado, 20 de julio de 2024
A MemoirIn this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the world's best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay righ...9999903162988Maupin, Armistad
Black Swan
sábado, 20 de julio de 2024
Ruri Pilgrim tells the story of her family from the 1870s to the 1950s. She begins with the formality and security of the arrangements of life for a Japanese middle-class family, l...9999903161752Ruri Pilgrim
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 18 de julio de 2024
My Friendship with JackieThe instant New York Times bestseller | Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by People magazineA chance encounter at a summer party on Martha ??s Vineyard blossomed into an impr...9999903160823Carly Simon
Picador
jueves, 18 de julio de 2024
Entertaining the Troops - Her Wartime JournalsThe second part of the autobiography of Joyce Grenfell, this text tells of the time she spent with ENSA, entertaining the troops, in England and Northern Ireland, then around the w...9999903158776Joyce Grenfell
Coronet Books
viernes, 12 de julio de 2024
"Rules For Being A Man: Don't Cry Love Sport Play Rough Drink Beer Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use?...9999903157403Robert Webb
The Canons
martes, 9 de julio de 2024
Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind. He is, in short, a model citizen. The favourite son. His younger brother Pete is quick-tem...9999903157243Stuart Heritage
Vintage
martes, 9 de julio de 2024
"This book is not a critical study of either Katharine Hepburn's life or her career. It is, rather, as true an account of her life as I can present, based on countless hours of pro...9999903154051A. Scott Berg
London : Simon & Schuster, 2003.
jueves, 4 de julio de 2024
Hidden VoicesFor eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on t...9999903152217Xinran; translated by Est...
London : Vintage, 2003, c2002.
martes, 2 de julio de 2024
It's a New BeginningThis first of all is a story about mountaineering, accident and paralysis. About coming to terms with losing movement and regaining the will to live. But it's also about the border...9999903150367Karen Darke
O Books
sábado, 29 de junio de 2024
A Memoir of a ChildhoodSpecial edition of the bestselling classic, to tie-in with the release of Alan Parker???s major new film of Angela???s Ashes9999903149521McCourt, Frank
Flamingo
sábado, 29 de junio de 2024
The Biography of Bill RobinsonMore than fifty years after his death in 1949, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson is still the most famous tap dancer who ever lived, immortalised in the song 'Mr. Bojangles, ' fondly remem...9999903149330James Haskins N. R. Mitan...
Robson Books Ltd
sábado, 29 de junio de 2024
A MemoirRob Spillman--the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine--has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in...9999903143826Rob Spillman
Grove Press
miércoles, 12 de junio de 2024
An Artist Among the BattlefieldsAt the age of eighteen Jan Montyn was learning how to cross a ravine hanging from a rope; at nineteen he was serving in the Baltic on a German minesweeper; by the time he was twent...9999903140900Jan Montyn Dirk Ayelt Koo...
Souvenir Press Ltd
viernes, 7 de junio de 2024
This memoir recounts the decade 1940-1949, a crucial time in the author's life and the life of his native country India, during the waning light of the British raj.9999903139119Ved Mehta
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
martes, 4 de junio de 2024
Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-...9999903134091David Thomson
Vintage
miércoles, 29 de mayo de 2024
Gervase Phinn reveals his early experiences as a school inspector in The Other Side of the Dale. As the newly appointed County Inspector of Schools in North Yorkshire, Gervase Phin...9999903134084Gervase Phinn
Editors Varis
miércoles, 29 de mayo de 2024
My Life as an InventorThe story of Trevor Baylis, the man who invented the clockwork radio. Baylis's success as an inventor has won him an OBE, the Presidential Gold and Silver medals from the Institute...9999903133834Trevor Baylis
Headline Book Publishing
martes, 28 de mayo de 2024
This biography tells the story of Marlene Dietrich's life - the Berlin child, the young actress, the mother, lover and international star. The book describes personal details of Di...9999903133599Maria Riva
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
martes, 28 de mayo de 2024
The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)"As in life, the Carmichael in these pages is the definition of charisma and determination. In sharp prose full of Carmichael's candor, wit, irrepressible sense of irony, and undyi...9999903127512Stokely Carmichael Michae...
Charles Scribner's Sons
viernes, 17 de mayo de 2024
Late-life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real EstateAs a result of what she calls 'the only stroke of genius I've ever had', Jane Juska placed a personal ad in a newspaper, that began- 'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like t...9999903126188Jane Juska
Vintage
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
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